Kelsey McKinney's novel "God Spare the Girls" asks what it means to be a young woman grappling with white Evangelical Christianity
"Mom’s Ashes" by Robert Travieso, recommended by Electric Literature
Rajiv Mohabir, author of "Antiman," on ancestral trauma and the ghosts created by diasporic communities
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SupportThere's a new social media refrain any time there's a discovery about the moon, or trees, or a strange animal: "Don't tell the poets"
Lana Bastašić, author of "Catch the Rabbit," on what stays within us after we abandon our home and our language
Two poems about language and landscape by Cindy Juyoung Ok
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"Mom’s Ashes" by Robert Travieso, recommended by Electric Literature
Two poems about language and landscape by Cindy Juyoung Ok
"Filthy Animals" by Brandon Taylor, recommended by Calvert Morgan
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